I am trying to build a playlist too. I am a raving fan of classic rock music, from which it will be more difficult to cull songs that would be appropriate. Here are some that I know will work (and I am open to suggestions!):

1) A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles

2) I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles

3) Give Me Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group

4) Birthday - The Beatles

5) Angry Young Man - Billy Joel

6) James Dean - The Eagles

7) Back in the USSR - The Beatles

8) Slow Down - The Beatles

9) I'll Cry Instead - The Beatles

10) I've Just Seen a Face - The Beatles

11) Paperback Writer - The Beatles

12) 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago

13) Oh Atlanta - Little Feat

My apologies for this list being Beatle-heavy, but their music is my passion. I would love to receive other suggestions from this genre.

My iPod is a hodge podge of different genres ... but there's one song in particular that always gets me running a little bit harder: "I'm Shipping up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys. You may recognize it from the NFL commercials last season ...

First of all, thank you for your thread! I am a very beginner and choosing music for run at the moment. Have a very few favourites. First of all Tool - Stinkfist, I adore it and not only for run, another is Nickelback - Saving me and Wolfmother - Mind's Eye. Last song is little bit slow, just as I am while running

It's fun to have a variety of tempos and intensities on your 'pod and let the music dictate your run. Yesterday, I had on a recent playlist (called "run amok"), and the gods of randomness favored me with the following back-to-back-to-back-to-back tracks to take me right up to my doorstep in a fine lather:

OK, I love to run to music but diff than most here. Give me bluegrass and BG Gospel (I play dobro in a bluegrass band), a banjo can really get you goin if you let it. Dont get me wrong I need some ACDC, ZZTop, or Molly Hachet sometimes too. Gonna look into some of the other suggestions as well as the BPM music, thanks for the all the tips. D.

I don't wear headphones when I run outside, but at the gym my favorite running songs are:

Rihanna- S & M (great beat)

Lady Gaga- Alejando

Katy Perry- ET

Michael Franti- Hey hey hey

Kat Deluna- Run this Show

Panic at the Disco- Time to Dance

Shelby

"Through it all, each morning has patiently asked me, 'Why do you run today?' And over the course of the years, one simple answer has quietly become more clearly heard than all others: because I must."

So interesting to see what others choose... My iPod has a wide variety of genres on it and my "Running" playlist is heavy on the irony--many of the titles are like a private joke to myself. This isn't the entire list, but it's a pretty good representation.